... SDOTLANDIO THE PATRIOTIC FUND.-The Edinburgh subscription to the fund now amounts to £16,686 iis oid. GLAaaSow.-The Glasgow subscription to the Patriotic Fund now amounts to the munificent sum of £490,349. TiE R COMAND. OR -THB NORTH BRITISH MILITARY DIsrscxCT..-tMjor-6eneral Vjscount' Melville bhas arrived at Southampton' from ndi, -and 'is. expected next week to take e Noapimenn fth pt ...

... c Wbertl3ec mot;tAl ( WEDNESDAY, January 3.1855. .~ - E TIlE PAST YEAR. - - don Wu can scarcely say, in contemplating the bye-gone mei year, whether the feelings of gratification or of regret the predominate. Perhaps the latter ought to prevail for, kep whatever room there may be for triumph, there is'little fro for satisfaction. We required no new proofs of the coal valour of our countrymen. ...

... 70 en ly ENSLAND. a Pe !y Thre Duke and Duchess of Richmond have a large family th I~circle assemnbled at Goodwood Park. The Princess Edward of thc Saxe Weimar, the Earl and Countess of March. Lord Henry 45 Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, M.P., to 1j care of the party. P Thle Duke and Duchess of Sutherland's party this Christmas, re o , sarfiedt ts, at Trentbramicofndt a ...

... ,he THunE ars none within these islands who have not o nur grieved over the condition and sufferings of the army in ren en the Crimea; and few who have not asked themselves, deer re, with more or less misgiving, the serious question-Who A 1st is to blame for these things? We see the troops hurried at to the seht of war with more alacrity, better equipped, I and in a state of -higher efficiency ...

... It OuR latest news from the Crimea consists for the most ou g part of rumours which have not yet been authenticated. Co. 'gIt is said that another engagement had taken place at de e Alma, between the Russian army in the interior and a stj Y body of French troops, supported by Turks, who had fie ) landed at Eupatoria. Such was the rumour of the camp ar about the 10th of December. But we ...

... 11r 190HIC TPEL19GRAPH. lai THIYE CRIMEA. lat Menschikoff reports that, up to the 23d, nothing of ima- be, portance had oecu~ed. ser The Governor of Odessa has published a tranquoil izing Th order of the da YOn the subject of an apprehended visit at of the allied fleet. MADRID, December 29.-The Minister of Finance has resigned. AUSTRIALrA.-Tbe Lady Jocelyn steamer has arrived re at Southampton ...

... TO THE GRADUATES OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE A ND UNIVERSITY. * Gsemarae,-n a ~g whn amo t ebything is effected y byorgniztion an whn alostnotingcan be done with. ie utioemgthvepetdtasoe attempt would, ere as nohvuenmd, ofr odo nion, between indi- La idastadninyureaonteahother, and to en im- pOI e portant natioal institution. It can scarcely, indeed, be doubted, 1 !-that had the Graduates of our ...

... F R E E M A S O N R Y. t On the 27th ult., being St. John's Day, the following Breth. 3po fl ren were duly elected Managers and Office-Bearers of the Aber- . eu , deen Mason Lodge, for the ensuing year, viz:- M ; Alexander Martin, R. W. Master; Alexander Hadden, Past Neev d Master; Alexander Rust, Depute Master; Wm. Leslie, Lon Senior Warden; Robert Christian Marshal, Junior War- ye den; John ...

... : War Qflice, Dec. 26. Y Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards-Lieutenant W. T. Markham, T d from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purcbase. F vice Wilson, promoted. Ensign and Lieutenant Michael Walker I Heneage to be Lieutenant and Captain, without purchase, vice Elliot, T killed in action. Lieut Lord Eustace Henry Brownlov Gascoyne T Cecil from the 88th Foot, to be ...

... THE SOURCES OF -SUPPLY OF PHOSPHORIC 'I ACID, bel. JU( lIN the geological strata, known as the Cretaceous or Do Chalk Formation, which prevail over a considerable ex- foil tent of the south-east of England, there occur certain Zr beds, which, from their siliceous character and the Pic colourimparted by contained silicate of iron, have been Re' dencminated the Greensand. The strata so named lie ...

... Prasad. The Emperor Napoiton IIIL opecied the Legislative Session on Tuesday with the followingsec Gentleman, ISenators, an Dpepies,-d :Since your last meeting great events have happened. The appeal whiuh I made to the country to provide for the expense ci of the war was so well responded tb that the result even exceeds I my hoepse. Our arms have been victorious in thle Baltic as dl wall as ...

... TIE ARMY AND ITS HEAD. on F'rom the Times.) DREADFUL as it Must be to reflect on the passibitity of 70,000 ant -British and French soldiers and some 30,000 Turks suddenly rer, let looke upon a city that has so long defied their efforts, and !nts for the possessiou of which they, have gone thmough so much the suffering, yet we must desire it as the choice of evils. We gis- desire'it indeed, and ...